USER: #E00707 - can we even have green thumbs if there isn't any green

[parodeity]

[ USER: #E00707 in this lovely color ]

A brief announcement, as we’ve all seemed to embrace the trend of sharing important information on this forum: we have successfully begun cultivating a garden.

apparently when he says brief he means brief but anyway
flavo is now plus one flavor station
you could say its flavotown with guy fielderi
or not that you could also say not that
but yeah we just took over a random ass field and planted things
and then used a magical fertilizer known as time shit and also me
but mostly time shit which smells less bad than like bullshit but apparently has the same results
and anyway we used that to make stuff grow faster
you know for fun and profit
and also french fries
and now we are inviting you to help the fuck out because gardening is actually really boring
and also we could use a bigger variety of things to garden
i guess
right
hey how do we garden salt

Salt can be distilled out of salt water, with a bit of time and effort. Or was that intended to be a rhetorical question?

none of my questions are ever rhetorical i always want an answer
unless the answer is something dumb i guess but in that case i can always just make up that someone told me something not dumb
or i can just pretend i never asked
anyway that aside
were willing to probably reward anyone who wants to put in gardening time
like with weeds or things
or like actually giving us neat seeds or whatever
with food that actually tastes like stuff since thats most of what were growing
or just like food which is an important resource if you dont wanna die i guess
but also more importantly than any of that
french fries
because guess what tel made me french fries and theyre the bomb and i can now die a happy man the end
I didnt realize until this moment just how much i missed salt and that kind of warm greasy french fry smell and feeling
its chicken soup for the soul only way more satisfying and also probably less healthy which is what makes it more satisfying
you know you want in on this

That does seem a sufficient bribe, yes. Join the gardening effort; receive french fries. I’m willing to call that my contribution to the cause.

[ despite the fact this is all in dave's lovely red text, he is probably not larping talking with someone else. in fact, the other person is ignis scientia who will also probably respond to things. and as promised they have in fact set up a garden plot in flavo! thanks to dave's dumb time powers things they're growing there are on a month-week scale. for example, potatoes take 2 months but with dave applying some time shit they're taking 2 weeks. the garden currently offers: tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, onions, and wheat. these things all have flavor because they were made from things ignis had already from home! give them more stuff, obviously. maybe earn yourself some delicious french fries! ]

Comments

[parodeity]

you can always try it with like a bowl of salt water and see
i genuinely wouldnt know

[pursestrings]

right, yeah
good idea though i didn't think of that
i'll keep u posted

[parodeity]

oh whoops

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to make up for missing one

[pursestrings]

damn that's a cool overload
$$$$$$0K-YASU$$$$$$
extra cash for extra cool

[parodeity]

do you feel weird w/out a cash system here
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[pursestrings]

kinda
i was already poor as shit so that's not new
but now it doesn't even matter which is bogus
$$$0K-YA$U$$$

[bogus.]

[parodeity]

honestly money hasnt mattered for me for about three years
bc our meteor didnt have an economy
its kind of a weird feeling at first but you get used to it?
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[pursestrings]

sure
i'm gonna need new pins for my jacket at this rate
maybe a fucked up fish or something
$$$0K-YA$U$$$

[parodeity]

do the pins mean something
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[pursestrings]

money stuff yeah
if u write my name the correct way it's got the character for billion in it
guess my folks liked the idea of lots of cash too
$$$0K-YA$U$$$

[parodeity]

admittedly the idea of not being strapped for cash is universally understandable
except for people without any economy whatsoever i guess
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[pursestrings]

my bro's name has trillion in it
u could say we all got lofty goals
ochako traded a fish for a marker here so i'm thinking fish bucks has something going for it
$$$0K-YA$U$$$

[parodeity]

oh you have a bro too
my name has like
zero meaning
or well i guess dave means "beloved" or "friend" or some bullshit
but our names i think have less like
pieces and parts and meanings than japanese ones do
ig because of how your write your names
with like pieces of words or whatnot
and we just use like a handful of letters
and theres no special meaning to the juxtaposition of d and a or whatever
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[pursestrings]

had but yeah
just tell people the d is for dope
or dude
or dangerous if u wanna live wild
$$$0K-YA$U$$$

[parodeity]

its obv for dope dangerous dude
all three at the same time
also same re had
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[pursestrings]

triple threat huh
nice
& sorry man
my bro wasn't great but he was still my bro yknow
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--> private

[parodeity]

[ UH. he has a sudden interest but isn't sure this is the best venue to...ask.

he'll swap to private messaging okuyasu's inbox. ]

wasnt great
?
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[pursestrings]

[Oh--hello, secret DM. The degree of publicity doesn't really matter to Okuyasu, all things considered - but this is fine.]

a real asshole yeah
pretty sure he gave a shit about me some of the time
so
$$$0K-YA$U$$$

[parodeity]

what did he like
do

[pursestrings]

called me dumb mostly
& useless
& in his way
& a waste of space
& whatever else
one time i almost died and he was just like oh that sucks, u were too dumb to get out of the way
but he was still my only shitty bro

[parodeity]

oh
yeah
i feel that
shit kinda sucks

[pursestrings]

word
he did bad shit & deserved what he got in the end
still, now i got no brother instead of a shitty one

[Mmm... MMM]

what about ur bro

[parodeity]

[ there's kind of a long-ass pause. like. enough of a pause it seems like dave might have fucked off? while really he's just sitting there staring at his laptop screen like it's going to do some kind of trick.

there's a lifetime of conditioning that wants to say my bro? coolest guy around and shoot the shit like always. he'd still do it to john, if john asked.

but it's also the first time anyone else has admitted to having less than stellar guardian figures in a way dave thinks is genuine. like. rose and john complained bitterly about mom and dad but thousands of miles away dave could tell that there was love on both sides. is this more of that kind of complaining? because he'd taken them at their word at first before realizing it was just all overblown teenage shit.

maybe okuyasu wandered off. anyway. eventually dave types: ]

i dont know
he didnt like me really
but hes dead now so it doesnt matter ig?

[pursestrings]

[Okuyasu isn't waiting by the phone, metaphorically speaking, but he hasn't lost interest in the conversation even as Dave takes a while to respond. He doesn't have it in him to lie about this kind of thing—it's true that his family is a disaster if one is being generous, after all...

And somehow, no one has ever been weird about it and tried to pity him, or anything - so why not tell? It happens. Life sucks, people move on.]

yeah
well
i dunno
guess that depends on u
sometimes i'm mad & sometimes i think it'd be ok if he came back
nobody ever explains how it's supposed to work

[parodeity]

idk
ive never really talked about anything with anyone
i dont know if people telling you how youre supposed to feel would really work out anyway
what you feel is what you feel
maybe